Clothesline-support



' R. E. HINES.

CLOTHESLINE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6, 1919.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT E. HINES, or BROOKLYN, nnw'YonK, ASSIGNOB or ONE-HALF T0 ABRAHAM TWEEL, on NEW YORK, n. Y.

GLOTI-IESLINE-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

Application filed November 6,1919. Serial No. 336,015. 3

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT E. HINns, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- 1ine-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object the production of a novel, simple and inexpensive device adapted to be hung or fastened to a Window frame or other part adjacent said frame and by means of which a person is enabled, from Within a room, to hang clothes or other objects to be dried on a line extending from the device to a suitable pole or other support adjacent the house.

My improved device is not only compact instructure but when in inoperative position it does not operate as an obstruction to the window. It also permits the operator to hang out or take in the clothes without assuming a dangerous position, which is .notpossible when the line is merely passed over a conventional form of hook or pulley attached to th window frame or wall as is ordinarily the case. The device may also be easily raised and detachably held in operative position and it is so constructed as to permit the line to be drawn taut and hooked over the device when in inoperative position.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear from the accompanying descrlptlon, the invention consistlnq' 1n the novel parts and combinations of parts hereinafter more particularly described and then specified in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing 1 Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved device as applied or fastened to a window and shown in operative position.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same in'inoperative position.

Fig.3 is an enlarged side elevation of the topportion of the device in inoperative posltlon.

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of'a modification of the-device. r v

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a portion of the modification shown in Fig. 4. 5

' Fig. 6 is a sideelevation of a further modification.

Referring more particularly-to the several figures of the drawing,1 indicates the side frame of a window showing the usual conventlonal w ndow sashes 2 mounted therein. 3 indicates a hook fastened outside the window or to-the wall of the house and acent the corner or edge of the window frame 1.

To use the device embodying the preferred form of the invention it is unnecessary to especially provide the hook 3 as any conventional form of hook usually present in the wall of a house, particularly an apartment house, from which a clothes line is adapted to extend to a post or other objectremote from the house, may conveniently be used.

4: indicates the body of a bracket provided with an eye 5, a hook 6 and with depending flanges 7 preferably integral with said body. 8 indicates a pin or bolt one end of which is perforatedor provided with an eye 9 and the other end of which is screw-threaded as at 10 and adapted to receive a nut 11. 12 inengages a screw-eye 15 fastened in the side of the wlndow frame. 16 indlcates a clothes line or rope which passes around a pulley or hook on any suitable support without the window (not shown) and on which line clothes or other objects to be dried may be hung. Said line 16 passes through theeye 5 and over the pulley 13 and the ends thereof are fastened togetherat some point outside of the window. I

,My improveddevice. which is quickly detachable is shown in inoperative position in Fig. 3with the hook 3 passing through the eye 9of the pin or bolt 8 whereby the device is suspended or hung on said hook. The saidhook 3 is fastened in the front window frame or in the wall of the house and adjacent the corner of the side frame 1 as has been described. When the support is in this position, as is obvious, the sides of the arm 12 are parallel to the wall of the house and inorder to more securely hold the device in this position the hook 14 is latched to or engaged with a suitable screw-eye 17 provided in the front of the window frame. "When in this position there would ordinarily be considerable slack in the line 16 outside of the window but this condition may be remedied and the line drawn taut by passing the same over the hook 6 of the bracket 4 as "clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. When in inoperative position the support is in no wise an obstruction to the window, neither does it interfere with the proper operation of the sashes as shown in 2. When it is desired to use my improved support, assuming of course the window sashes have first been raised, the hook 14 is released from its engagement with the screw-eye 17 and the device is swung around on the hook 3 through an angle of 90 into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, so that the sides of the arm 12 are parallel to the side frame 1. of the window. The rope 16 is then released from its engagement with the hook 6 of the bracket, the arm 12 is swung upwardly on the pin 8 which acts as a pivot, the hook 14 is latched to the screw-eye 15 and the bracket 7 is swung upwardly to a position at right angles to the arm 12. Clothes may then be hung on the line and drawn without the window in an obvious manner by merely pulling the line to cause the same to travel through the eye 5 and over the pulley 13, the operator at all times being enabled to assume a perfectly safe position well within the window.

In the modifications illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5- the device is detachably fastened to the side frame 1 of the window instead of being merely hung or suspended on a hook which extends outwardly from said base. The body portion 20 is provided with an eye 21 formed therein and with a hook 22-adjacent said eye. The body of said bracket is perforated longitudinally therethrough, saidperforation being adapted to receive a suitable screw-bolt 23 therethrough which acts not only as additional means for securing the bracket to the window frame, but also as a pivot on which the wooden arm 12 is hungor suspended by means of the screw-eye 24, the shank of which is fastened to or screwed on the end of the wooden arm as illustrated in Fig. 5. To bring the arm into operative or horizontal position it is swung upwardly on its pivot 23 and held in this position by means of the hook 14 and eye 15 as'in the preferred form, When the arm is swung downwardly into inoperative position or that position shown in dotted lines in Fig; 4, the hook 14 is latched or engaged with i a suitable screw-eye 25 with which the side frame 1 is provided and the rope 16 is passed over the hook 22 to take up the slack therein.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 6

the bracket, the body of which is indicated at 26, isnot provided with an eye or hook as in the preferred and first modified form of the invention and the wooden arm 12 is pivoted to the bracket by passing a screwbolt 27 directly through a perforation with which the body proper of the arm is provided. The upper end of the arm is hollowed or cut out as at 28 within which hollowed portion the line passes and which also provides a hooked part for the line to draw the same taut when the device is in inoperative position. The arm is also preferably provided with a screw-eye 29 through which the rope passes and which in a measure acts as a substitute for the eyes 5 and 21 in the other forms of the invention.

Inall the embodiments of the invention illustrated it is obvious that after clothes have been hung on the line the window sashes may be closed without striking the arm by swinging the arm downwardly into vertical position, and latching it in this position if so desired, whereupon the line may be passed over the bracket or the hook thereon in the manner previously described.

' What I claim as my invention is 1. In a clothes 'line'support, a bracket receiving theclothesline and acting as a guide therefor, a support for said bracket, an arm, a pivot extending through said bracket for pivotally holding said arm to said bracket and for holding said bracket to the support, a pulley mounted on said arm over which the clothes line is adapted to pass, means on said arm for latching the same in horizontal and operative position or in vertical and inoperative position and a hook for engaging the line to take up the slack therein when said arm is in inoperative position. I

2. In a clothes line support, a hook secured to the outside frameof a window adjacent the edge of the side frame thereof, a bracket having an eye receivin'gthe clothes line and acting as a guide therefoigan arm, a pivot for pivotally' holding said arm to said bracket and adapted to "be hung on said hook, said arm being adapted to be turned at right angles from its vertical and inoperative position outside of the window and swung up on its pivot into horizontal and operative position within the window .whereby the pivot is swung around on said hook without removal of the same from said hook,

a pulley on said arm over which'the-clothes line is adapted to pass and a hook on said bracket for engaging the line to take up the slack therein.

3. In a clothes line support, a hook, a bracket acting as a guide for the clothes line, an arm and a Pivot pivotallv holding said bracket and arm together and provided with an eye for removably hanging said bracket on said hook,said arm being adapted e to be turned at right angles on said hook and to be swung on its pivot and means on the end of said armover which the clothes line is idapted to pass. 7

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 3rd 10 day of November A. D. 1919.

ROBERT E. HINES.

Witnesses:

F. B. TOWNSEND, IRENE LEFKOWITZ. 

